SharpShooter Reports.Silverlight

Silverlight as a platform for SaaS.
Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device technology for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. It promises to be the most suitable platform for RIA (Rich Internet Application) and SaaS (Software as a Service) applications, as solutions designed for Silverlight are easy and fast to distribute and manage.

Reports are an essential part of Business Intelligence.
The benefits corporate Business Intelligence will get from Silverlight include increased speed of delivering updates, high interactivity and rich visualization features. These will dramatically optimize the work of corporate analysts.

Very often reports are distributed via the Web, and usually Web interfaces provide limited abilities to work with reports. Traditionally all you could do was just view, print, export and zoom reports. Often you need to use your browser abilities to search for necessary data and navigate the report. But browsers are not designed to work with reports.

Reporting component for Silverlight.
Silverlight report viewer combines all the benefits of desktop and Internet applications:

Advantages of desktop applications

• Fast report uploading: every single page is loaded separately; you can view only those report pages you really need without loading the whole report
• Report preview: single page, continuous
• Export to PDF, HTML, Excel, and RTF
• Zoom of any type: percent, regional, dynamic
• Fast search
• Easy navigation
• Report panning

Advantages of Internet applications

• No need to install an application and deliver updates to every computer in the company, just update it on the server and all employees have a new version delivered

Advantages of Silverlight applications

• Correct display of designed reports: unlike reports exported to HTML, Silverlight reports guarantee a 100% match of all displayed report elements with Win Forms preview
• High-quality reports representation: you can zoom in any report area without loss of quality
• Delicate setup of viewer design: all report viewer elements are set up by styles and templates. You can use custom skins. Such components will seamlessly fit into the design of any application
• Universal solution for all operating systems, Web browsers and devices: no need to setup and adjust your Business Intelligence system on each seat

Summarizing the benefits of SharpShooter Reports.Silverlight:
With SharpShooter Reports.Silverlight you get a feature-rich reporting component with extended abilities for delivering reports via the Internet. SharpShooter Reports.Silverlight will help you dramatically reduce delivery time of your Business Intelligence projects, simplify and optimize work of analysts and other personnel working with reports and in this way increase ROI of the projects and customer satisfaction.

Why use SharpShooter Reports.Silverlight
Working with SharpShooter Reports.Silverlight provides developers with:

• Ability to create Web reports of the next generation.
• Favorite programming language. Silverlight works within the .Net Framework subset. Now you, as a .Net developer, can easily and simply create advanced Web applications using your favorite programming languages (C#, VB.Net and so on). Time is money; spend it on development, not examination!
• Ideal IDE. Silverlight projects are developed in Visual Studio. Today, this IDE is the best among the systems of this kind due to the possibility to write code more quickly and easily.
• Web report quality comparable with quality of desktop one. You can display reports filled with graphics, animation, media components in a web browser. Using Silverlight Report Viewer you will see that web reports look exactly like their desktop analogue. This became possible due to built-in fonts, vector graphics, gradient fills, semi transparency, formatted text, etc.
• Report appearance which can satisfy the most sophisticated requirements. Report appearance can be set by styles and templates presented in the product. You can design custom styles and templates which will make your report stylish and original.
• Immediate report delivery. The Report Manager component is located on the server side. When reports are changed or modified by developer or designer, all users immediately receive new report versions.

Working with reports created with SharpShooter Reports.Silverlight provides users with:

• Economy of time and effort. You will avoid problems with programs installation, setup and administration since the work with reports can be done on any OS and doesn’t require additional software. All you should do is to open the report in internet browser.
• Saving of traffic. All reports are stored on the server side. Silverlight Report Viewer allows the load of the needed pages. Thus, by uploading separate necessary pages you save not only traffic, but time for download.
• Ability to preview reports as in desktop applications. Do everything you used to: zoom reports, use various report preview modes, export reports to PDF, HTML and RTF, quickly find necessary information in the report, easily navigate the report, pan and scroll reports. Use all advantages of Web applications of the next generation!
• Possibility to keep in focus all the needed information. Due to unique SmartReportView technology all manipulations with reports are smoothly animated. No sudden changes on the display occur when you scroll, zoom in or out or navigate the report; it allows you not to lose the necessary information from the focus.
• Reports history. Report viewer stores all user manipulations over reports. Now, in case of a need, you always can return to the previous view.

Report Sharp-Shooter for Silverlight Features:

• Fast report uploading - Though all reports are stored on the server, they are loaded much faster, as every separate report page is uploaded separately. User will view only necessary report pages without loading the whole report. This feature will dramatically save Internet traffic and correspondingly users’ time and money.
• WYSIWYG report preview in web browsers - Forget about viewing reports via the Web as HTML and PDF documents that don’t provide high quality of representation. With Silverlight report viewer you will get precisely displayed reports, the same reports you see in Win Forms. This became possible due to built-in fonts, vector graphics, gradient fills, semi transparency, formatted text, etc.
• Advanced preview features - Manipulate reports in Web browser in the same way you do it in Windows applications: Zoom in/out reports: dynamic, regional, percent zoom is available; Various preview modes are at your discretion: single page, continuous; Export reports to PDF, HTML, Excel, and RTF; Quickly find necessary information in the report; Easily navigate the report; Pan and scroll reports.
• High-quality report representation - Pages are provided in vector format; it provides the ability to zoom in any report area without loss of quality.
• Smooth preview transformation - An advanced SmartReportView technology is designed to enhance user experience. This technology makes all user manipulations over the report smoothly animated, no sudden changes on the display occur when you scroll, zoom in or out or navigate the report. It is very convenient, as necessary information doesn’t go out of the user’s focus.
• Delicate setup of viewer design - All viewer elements are set up by styles and templates. You can design your own skins for the viewer, page and background. Such component will seamlessly fit into design of any application.
• Report manipulation history - Report viewer stores all user manipulations over reports; it is possible to navigate your actions backward and forward.
• Fast report delivery - Report manger is located on the server side, so report developer or designer can modify reports to suite corporate needs and new reports will be delivered to all users immediately.

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